{"id":2016274,"date":"2023-08-30T00:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-convinced-strom-thurmond-to-vote-for-the-civil-rights-act\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:33:18","slug":"biden-claims-he-convinced-strom-thurmond-to-vote-for-the-civil-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-convinced-strom-thurmond-to-vote-for-the-civil-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden asserts he persuaded Thurmond to support Civil Rights Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-he-convinced-strom-thurmond-to-vote-for-the-civil-rights-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016274&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> recently made a bold claim\u2062 that he &#8220;literally&#8221; convinced the late Senator\u200d Strom Thurmond (R-SC)\u2062 to vote for the\u2063 Civil Rights \u2062Act. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-convinced-strom-thurmond-to-vote-for-the-civil-rights-act\/\" title=\"Biden asserts he persuaded Thurmond to support Civil Rights Act.\">critics quickly raised doubts<\/a>\u2064 about his statement.<\/p>\n<p>Biden shared this \u200bclaim during his speech at the Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, coinciding \u200bwith \u200dthe organization&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caitlyn-jenner-files-initial-paperwork-in-bid-for-calif-governor\/\" title=\"Caitlyn Jenner files initial paperwork in bid for Calif. governor\">60th anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden says he &#8220;literally,\u200c not figuratively, \u2062talked Strom \u2063Thurmond\u200b into voting\u2064 for the\u2064 Civil\u200d Rights Act before he died.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sUDhrfePg8\">pic.twitter.com\/sUDhrfePg8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1696288948274802877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u200d28, \u20622023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Pause\u2062 for just a \u200cmoment. I thought things had changed,&#8221; Biden said. \u2064&#8221;I was able \u2062to \u2014 literally, not figuratively \u2014 talk Strom\u200d Thurmond \u200cinto voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died. And I\u2064 thought, &#8216;Well, maybe there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-says-virtual-learning-has-been-brutal-his-kids-have-been-in-school-since-november\/\" title=\"Newsom Says Virtual Learning Has Been Brutal. His Kids Have Been in School Since November.\">real progress<\/a>,&#8217; \u2064but\u2062 hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the\u2064 rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden&#8217;s claim raises a couple of concerns. Firstly, the Civil Rights Act was\u2063 passed in 1964, almost a decade before Biden \u2063was elected to the U.S. Senate. \u2063Additionally, Thurmond, who famously \u200cfilibustered the \u2063bill in 1957, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-anti-trump-lincoln-project-facing-questions-over-spending-practices\/\" title=\"Report: Anti-Trump Lincoln Project Facing Questions Over Spending Practices\">ultimately voted<\/a>\u2064 against\u200d the final \u2062bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any idea what Biden is \u200btalking about? \u200bStrom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he died almost 40 years later, \u2062and Biden was in college at that time&#8230;&#8221; @AGHamilton asked via a post \u200con\u200d X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Any idea what\u2062 Biden is talking \u200dabout?<\/p>\n<p>Strom Thurmond voted against\u2063 the \u200dCivil Rights Act of 1964, he\u2064 died almost 40 years later, and Biden was in college at that time\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/61khU6ijKJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/61khU6ijKJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wxns7kZE4u\">pic.twitter.com\/wxns7kZE4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1696293701247459789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Biden has the same \u200ctime-traveling \u200cpowers as Joy Reid&#8217;s hacker,&#8221; journalist \u200cGlenn Greenwald <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1696295309972820428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For\u200b those unaware, Biden was 22 when the Civil Rights Act passed,&#8221; John Hasson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonofHas\/status\/1696289851685961913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>. &#8220;So no,\u200d he definitely didn&#8217;t talk Strom Thurmond into voting for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congressional reporter Jamie Dupree suggested that President \u200cBiden might \u2063have been referring to\u200b the\u2063 Civil Rights Act of 1991, \u2062which primarily focused \u2064on \u2062labor \u2063laws in\u2062 response to Supreme Court decisions limiting \u200demployee \u2062rights in discrimination \u200bcases.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I assume what\u200c Biden\u200b is\u2062 talking about here is the Civil Rights\u2062 Act of 1991, \u200cwhich Sen. Strom Thurmond R-SC did vote for. Thurmond\u200b opposed \u2062the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 &#038; 1968, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I assume what Biden is\u200b talking about\u2062 here\u2063 is the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which Sen.\u200b Strom \u200cThurmond R-SC did vote for.   Thurmond opposed the Civil \u2064Rights Acts of 1964 &#038; 1968, as well as the\u200c Voting Rights Act of 1965. \u200b \u200b   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GgLMcu4eYi\">https:\/\/t.co\/GgLMcu4eYi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nqakAJ0hpY\">https:\/\/t.co\/nqakAJ0hpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree)\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiedupree\/status\/1696309251994513806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White \u200cHouse told Fox News Digital a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-claims-have-literally-convinced-strom-thurmond-vote-civil-rights-act-21-years-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different\u200c story<\/a>, however, \u2062stating that Biden had\u2064 meant to\u200b say \u2064he convinced \u2062Thurmond to support the\u2064 1980 Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed to have &#8220;literally&#8221; persuaded Senator Strom Thurmond to support the Civil Rights Act, a statement that drew criticism on multiple fronts. Biden made this assertion during his address to the Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, coinciding with the organization&#8217;s 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2016275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}